Conference on School Safety: Technologies, Research, and Emerging
Concepts
On January 23-25, 2002 the Center for Justice Leadership and Management, George
Mason University, the National Institute
of Justice, Sandia National Laboratories,
and the Office of Community Oriented
Policing Services cosponsored a conference on school safety. The conference,
School Safety: Technologies, Research, and Emerging Concepts, was held in Arlington,
Virginia and provided attendees the opportunity to learn about strategies and
approaches that can contribute to safe schools and to attain a basic understanding
of appropriate and inappropriate uses of technologies. Topics covered during
the conference included surveillance cameras, drug detection, entry and exit
control, justice based after school programs, assessment of School Resource
Officer programs, theft deterrence, problem solving, digital recorders, critical
incident planning, SchoolCOP crime mapping software, targeted violence prevention,
gang resistance training, concealed weapons detection, and legal issues regarding
technology and information sharing. Over 300 law enforcement officials, educators,
and technologists from throughout the United States attended the conference.
Some of the presentation information has been graciously provided by the agencies
for public viewing.
The presentation from The Department of Education "NIJ
Conference" and contact information from Susan Paisner
"Paisner Resources"
were included in the funding plenary session.
The slideshow "Creating a Safe and Nurturing
Learning Environment" details how to identify bullying
behavior, how victims are affected, and how to prevent bullying behavior from
developing into a serious institutional issue.
"Bomb Presentation and Display"
illustrates various homemade bomb forms and provides a quiz to test "What-If"
responses.
"The Events at Lake Worth Middle School"
details a chronology of events from the Florida school shooting where Nathaniel
Brazill murdered a teacher.
"School Based Problem Solving"
details a case study at a Florida high school investigating solutions to
rising truancy levels .
School
Safety Brochure